Testing predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy framework: A crosslinguistic investigation  

Oleh:

Gundel, Jeanette K. ; Bassene, Mamadou ; Gordon, Bryan ; Humnick, Linda ; Khalfaoui, Amel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 42 no. 7 (Jul. 2010), page 1770–1785.
Topik: Reference; Cognitive status; Givenness Hierarchy; Implicature; Demonstratives
Fulltext: Gundel_J.K.pdf (270.58KB)

Isi artikel

This paper reports on a study that tests predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy theory by extending it to four languages not yet studied in this respect – Eegimaa, Kumyk, Ojibwe, and Tunisian Arabic. Three hypotheses are tested: I. If a language encodes the distinction between two adjacent statuses on the hierarchy, it will also encode distinctions between higher statuses; II. All languages encode distinctions between the two highest statuses, ‘in focus’ and ‘activated’; III. Languages will not have forms that encode the set difference between two statuses. Results of the study provide support for all three hypotheses.

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